Evolution from Carp to Divine Dragon - Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Devouring the Rat

TL: Etude

Thinking about this, Lin Hao felt even more surprised inside.

He could now be certain that the thing that killed him back then was definitely a mutated creature!

And a very powerful one at that!

Thinking about this, he felt a sense of urgency.

But being anxious wouldn’t solve anything!

The only way to quickly increase his evolution points right now was by devouring those scavengers.

Boom!

Just as Lin Hao was pondering how to gather more evolution points, there was a slight tremor in the nearby area.

The vibration wasn’t strong, but Lin Hao, who was in this specific area, could clearly feel it!

“Could there be another mutated creature here?!”

He thought of a possibility and became a bit nervous.

After all, from their previous conversation, it was clear that these mutated creatures were very sensitive to that special ultrasonic wave.

If one had managed to remain hidden until now, could it mean that this was a particularly strong mutated creature?!

Hesitating slightly, he swam toward the area.

If he couldn’t beat it, he could always run. Better to take a look first!

Boom!

As he swam closer, he could vaguely hear a dull sound from the corner behind the Hualong Pond.

Some silt trembled, making the surrounding water a bit murky.

Lin Hao stared intently at the area below.

It was as if something was about to emerge from the ground!

There was definitely something down there!

After waiting for a while, the disturbance seemed to stop.

“Is it gone?”

The previously murky water slowly began to clear again.

Lin Hao stared at the area, curiosity filling his eyes.

The disturbance just now couldn’t have been fake; there had to be something down there!

“I’ll keep an eye on it for now,” he muttered to himself.

With the Dragon King Temple’s lockdown lifted, people began to come and go again.

However, there were fewer people feeding and tossing bread crumbs, so the speed at which he could gather evolution points slowed significantly.

“Quick! Keep pouring them in for the Dragon King!”

One evening, Boss Peng returned with a group of people.

“Dragon King, please bless me this time!”

“Don’t let my stocks drop again, I can’t take it anymore!”

Boss Peng clasped his hands together, praying earnestly towards the Hualong Pond.

“They say heaven favors the benevolent. I’ve released so many fish, my good deeds should be enough. Just let me make it back one last time!” He spoke anxiously.

This time, he was relying on the stock market to recover his losses.

He was playing the short game and had invested everything, hoping to make a comeback in the market.

“Pour them in, release them all!”

At this moment, several people were carrying buckets of scavenger fish and dumping them into the Hualong Pond.

“Boss Peng, you should release some turtles or something. Releasing these fish probably won’t bring much merit,” a middle-aged man said to Boss Peng with a smile.

Scavenger fish were rampant in some rivers. They could easily catch a bunch with little effort.

Nobody wanted them.

But upon hearing that Boss Peng wanted to release them, they gathered quite a few.

“What do you know? Isn’t this a fish?”

“A fish is a fish, and releasing living things is a good deed!”

While speaking, Boss Peng pulled out some banknotes from his pocket.

The price these people paid to catch the scavenger fish was much cheaper than last time, but Boss Peng still felt a twinge of pain.

“Hehe, if you say so,” the middle-aged man chuckled and didn’t say much more.

As long as someone wanted them, he would take people to catch them.

“Good deed? I think it’s a misdeed!”

Listening to the people on the shore, Lin Hao sneered inwardly.

Without any hesitation, he opened his mouth and bit into a scavenger fish.

His biting force had become much stronger, and the head of the scavenger fish exploded instantly.

In just a few bites, he devoured the entire scavenger fish.

It felt like his stomach was a bottomless pit, swallowing everything without getting full.

Devoured an adult scavenger fish, gained 30 evolution points.

The system prompt came quickly.

Thirty evolution points!

Lin Hao ignored the people and frantically devoured the scavenger fish.

The prompts for gaining evolution points kept appearing.

Rising!

His evolution points were skyrocketing!

By the time everyone had left, Lin Hao had devoured all the scavenger fish.

He had eaten a total of thirty-one adult scavenger fish and twelve juvenile scavenger fish, gaining a total of 1050 evolution points!

“But it’s still not enough to evolve,” Lin Hao sighed.

Although it was late at night, his night vision allowed him to see clearly in the pond.

He swam around and quickly reached the source of the water in the Hualong Pond.

The Hualong Pond was a spring-fed pool, with the water source coming from a mountain spring. However, the channel at the source was narrow, and the water flow was weak.

Swimming upstream was difficult.

Downstream was even less accessible, just a slightly larger stream.

“Being stuck here is not a solution,” Lin Hao felt a bit helpless.

How could he continue to gain more evolution points to evolve?

In the following days, Lin Hao continued to wander around the Hualong Pond.

The area where the disturbance had occurred remained quiet.

However, during this time, perhaps due to the influence of his divine abilities, the surrounding plants grew noticeably faster and more lush.

Moreover, at night, some wild animals started appearing nearby.

“Even wild boars are coming here to drink water,” Lin Hao observed a wild boar drinking from the river one night and felt a bit wistful.

He wasn’t strong enough yet; otherwise, he would have found a way to drag the boar into the pond and devour it.

Squeak, squeak, squeak—

At that moment, several dark shapes ran along the shore.

“Hmm?”

Lin Hao looked closely and saw several rats on the bank of the Hualong Pond!

The pond had no fence around it, just a sloping bank. It seemed that some people had thrown chicken feet and bones here earlier, attracting the rats.

But these rats were too close to the shore.

Lin Hao began to swim slowly towards them, moving so gently that not even a ripple was stirred.

As he got close, he lunged out of the water, grabbing a rat in his open mouth and dragging it back into the pond!

The rat couldn’t struggle and was bitten in half by Lin Hao!

In two bites, he devoured it completely.

Devoured a rat, gained 50 evolution points.

“Only fifty points?” Lin Hao muttered after finishing it.

The evolution points were too low!

Crunch, crunch, crunch!

At that moment, a strange noise came from not far away.

What was that sound!?